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100 1 $aPackard, Chris.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004043345
245 10 $aQueer cowboys :$band other erotic male friendships in nineteenth-century American literature /$cChris Packard.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2005.
300 $aviii, 144 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [119]-136) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tAll-male queer interracial families in the wilderness : James Fenimore Cooper solves his progeny problem --$gCh. 2.$tRehearsing and ridiculing marriage in The Virginian and other adventure tales --$gCh. 3.$tAmerican satyriasis in Whitman, Harris, and Hartland --$gCh. 4.$t"Queer secrets" in men's clubs : humor, violence, and homoerotic elision in works by Mark Twain, Beret Harte, and Eugene Field.
520 1 $a"Was the American Cowboy gay? Judging from the earliest representations of cowboys and other frontier figures in popular literature - who typically preferred a "buddy" over a wife - the answer seems to be yes. Evidence from books by nineteenth-century Western writers (from legends such as James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Owen Wister, to more obscure novelists and diarists) shows how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before the word "homosexual" and its synonyms were invented. American writers celebrated erotic frontier friendships as alternatives to the lawless violence that characterized stories about the early settlers' fabled lives. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indians, and vaqueros defined themselves by excluding femininity and the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Theodore Roosevelt called "strenuous living" with other bachelors in the relative "purity" of wilderness conditions. Queer Cowboys recovers this forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in fiction, poems, photographs, and song lyrics."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101047
650 0 $aHomosexuality and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMale homosexuality in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005745
650 0 $aSexual orientation in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000075
650 0 $aMale friendship in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006642
650 0 $aGay men in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95004286
650 0 $aCowboys in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033643
650 0 $aSex in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120618
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol059/2004054124.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004054124.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol052/2004054124.html
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852 00 $bbar$hPS217.H65$iP33 2005